Two-phase spray cooling of hybrid vehicle electronics

2008 11th IEEE Intersociety Conference on Thermal and Thermomechanical Phenomena in Electronic Systems, I-THERM

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 1210-1221

  Mudawar, Issam ^a   Bharathan, Desikan ^b   Kelly, Kenneth ^b   Narumanchi, Sreekant ^b  

^a Mudawar Thermal Systems Inc   (United States)

^b NATIONAL RENEWABLE ENERGY LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Electronics cooling; Environmental; Hybrid vehicles; Power electronics; Spray cooling

Indexed keywords

COOLING; DENSITY (OPTICAL); DIFFRACTIVE OPTICAL ELEMENTS; ELECTRONICS ENGINEERING; FIGHTER AIRCRAFT; FORMING; LAND VEHICLE PROPULSION; OPTICAL PROPERTIES; PESTICIDES; POWER ELECTRONICS; RENEWABLE ENERGY RESOURCES; SPRAY STEELMAKING; SPRAYING; THERMOMECHANICAL TREATMENT;

ELECTRONIC SYSTEMS; ELECTRONICS COOLING; ENVIRONMENTAL; HYBRID VEHICLES; SPRAY COOLING;

AUTOMOBILE ELECTRONIC EQUIPMENT;

EID: 50949102249     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ITHERM.2008.4544399     Document Type: Conference Paper

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